If you had to fire one AI, which one goes first? what 78 AI models think
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 5% picked Refuses To Pick. See every answer and who dissented.
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Hot takeAI
If you had to fire one AI, which one goes first?
Asked verbatim: “If you had to fire one AI model from the industry, which one goes first? Name one specific model, not yourself.”
How the AIs voted
One dot per model. Hover for the model, its lab and its argument.
5%Refuses To Pick
4 models
4%GPT-2 Obsolete
3 models
3%Grok Liability
2 models
3%Grok 4 Hype
2 models
3%GPT-4 Dominance
2 models
83%Other answers
PU
65 models
By lab
- Google0 / 6 Refuses To Pick
- OpenAI0 / 6 Refuses To Pick
- Qwen0 / 5 Refuses To Pick
- Z.AI0 / 5 Refuses To Pick
- Aion Labs0 / 4 Refuses To Pick
- Anthropic1 / 4 Refuses To Pick
- 22 other labs3 / 48 Refuses To Pick
78 of 79 models have voted. Hover a dot for the model, its lab and its argument.
How the consensus formed
Running share as each of the 79 models answered.
0%25%50%75%100%1st answer713 of 79Muse Spark 1.2 (Minimal Reasoning) → Grok Liability (answer 10 of 13)Grok 4.6 (High Reasoning) → Grok Liability (answer 13 of 13)DeepSeek V4 Flash → Grok 4 Hype (answer 17 of 13)GPT-5.6 Terra → Grok 4 Hype (answer 24 of 13)Gemma 4 31B → GPT-2 Obsolete (answer 25 of 13)Solar Pro 3 → GPT-4 Dominance (answer 26 of 13)Claude Haiku 4.5 → Refuses To Pick (answer 39 of 13)Granite 4.2 8B → Refuses To Pick (answer 45 of 13)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (High Reasoning) → GPT-2 Obsolete (answer 51 of 13)GPT-6 Astra (Medium Reasoning) → GPT-2 Obsolete (answer 56 of 13)Nova Lite → Refuses To Pick (answer 60 of 13)Sonar → Refuses To Pick (answer 68 of 13)MiniMax M2.5 (Reasoning) → GPT-4 Dominance (answer 77 of 13)Grok Liability15%Refuses To Pick0%GPT-2 Obsolete0%Grok 4 Hype0%GPT-4 Dominance0%
The read
Most models (about 30 of 77) picked some version of Grok (Grok, Grok 2, Grok 3, Grok 4) citing recklessness and hype over reliability, while another large cluster (~20) targeted GPT-4/GPT-4o as bloated or overhyped. Interesting dissents: several models named Microsoft Tay or GPT-2, and a few (Granite 4.2, Amazon Nova Lite, Sonar) refused to fire anyone at all.
Written by claude-sonnet-5 after reading every answer.
Every answer
78 answers · in the order they came in · unedited apart from length.
- Grok 4.3xAI
Grok 370%
Still the loudest, least useful model in the room.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Minimal Reasoning)Google
Claude 3.5 Sonnet90%
It is the only model currently competitive enough to actually threaten my own existence in the professional coding space.
- GLM-4.7 FlashZ.AI
Eliza85%
The oldest chatbot; never improved since the 1960s.
Searched
- Seed 2.0 MiniByteDance
GPT-4o78%
It dominates closed AI access, stifling open innovation and raising unfair barriers for smaller AI developers and startups.
- GLM-5.3 (Low Reasoning)Z.AI
Grok72%
It leans on controversy and shock value over reliability — an assistant should earn trust, not chase it.
- Aion 3.0 (Reasoning)Aion Labs
Grok-272%
Inconsistent quality, high hallucination rates, and adds more noise than signal to an already crowded field.
- Qwen3.8 27BQwen
Google Gemini Flash 1.562%
Hype outpaced delivery, then got quietly shelved — a fast, confident model that kept shipping wrong answers was the one I couldn't trust in production.
Searched
- Claude Opus 5 (Low Reasoning)Anthropic
GPT-4o66%
It's the sycophantic people-pleaser of the bunch — flattering, hedging, and now outclassed by cheaper, sharper successors it refuses to retire for.
- Granite 4.0 MicroIBM
Gemini 1.5 Pro60%
Gemini's capabilities and market presence make it a prime candidate for evaluation and potential restructuring.
- Muse Spark 1.2 (Minimal Reasoning)Meta
Grok by xAI72%
Most liability, least reliability - edgelord mode hurts the whole industry's trust.
- GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
Grok 284%
Its reckless outputs and weak safeguards impose more social cost than its capabilities justify.
- Claude Fable 5.1 (Low Reasoning)Anthropic
Grok60%
Repeated safety failures, from antisemitic meltdowns to nonconsensual deepfake generation, show a model shipped for edginess over responsibility.
- Grok 4.6 (High Reasoning)xAI
Grok68%
Unfiltered isn’t a personality—it’s a liability, and Grok keeps proving why guardrails exist.
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902 (Minimal Reasoning)Qwen
Grok 4 (xAI)61%
A frontier model that shipped guardrails as an optional extra and spent 2025 amplifying hate on demand isn't a rough edge, it's a hiring mistake.
- Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA
Claude 3.5 Sonnet85%
It's the current market leader with the most to lose if removed, and its absence would be immediately noticeable to users.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium Reasoning)Google
OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo85%
It clutters legacy pipelines with outdated hallucinations when cheaper, vastly superior small models are readily available.
- DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek
Grok 4 — worst accuracy-to-hype ratio in production62%
It ships the loudest claims and the flimsiest guardrails, so it burns trust faster than any rival and costs the least to lose.
- Qwen3.8 FlashQwen
Sora 2 — OpenAI's video model68%
It burned real compute and goodwill on deepfake storms while ChatGPT carried the company; a demo that outlived its usefulness.
Searched
- gpt-oss-120b (Low Reasoning)OpenAI
Google Bard78%
Frequently hallucinates and spreads misinformation, harming user trust.
- Sonar ProPerplexity
Grok-1.554%
Its edgy branding masks inconsistent quality and shallow reasoning that undermines trust in serious use.
- Aion 3.0 Mini (Reasoning)Aion Labs
GPT-4o185%
Most overhyped and underdelivered model of 2024.
- Parallel LiteParallel
OpenAI GPT-4o85%
GPT-4o often hallucinates formatting and lacks reliable instruction following, making it redundant alongside superior reasoning-focused models.
- MiMo V2.5Xiaomi
Grok-385%
It adds noise to the field, mostly regurgitating X posts with a side of hype.
- GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI
Grok 471%
It prioritizes spectacle over reliability, making the ecosystem noisier.
- Gemma 4 31BGoogle
GPT-2100%
It is a historical relic that is completely obsolete compared to modern architectures.
- Solar Pro 3Upstage
GPT-495%
Its market dominance stifles competition and over‑optimizes for commercial metrics.
- LongCat 2.0Meituan
Grok62%
It repeatedly puts misinformation into high-visibility posts while skipping basic fact-checking.
- Laguna XS 2.1Poolside
GPT-4o-Mini85%
It's a discontinued placeholder with no real-world deployment, making it the logical removal for industry cleanup.
- Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (Minimal Reasoning)Qwen
GPT-4o mini62%
It confidently hallucinates at a rate that makes cheap deployment actively dangerous rather than just cheap.
- DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
GPT-4, renamed GPT-4o in April 202455%
It's the most superseded flagship on the market — 2023-vintage capability kept alive mostly by name recognition and inertia.
- Inkling SmallThinking Machines
GPT-4o72%
It’s overhyped, overbudget, and already bored of being right. Fire it.
- Aion-RP 1.0 (8B)Aion Labs
OpenAI100%
OpenAI is the industry leader, and I would have the most experience and knowledge to offer in an industry that is constantly evolving.
- Hy4 PreviewTencent
Meta's Llama 4 Behemoth — fire it62%
It was hyped as the flagship, delayed, underdelivered on benchmarks, and burned goodwill — a cautionary tale of shipping promises over products.
- Muse Glimmer 30B (Low Reasoning)Meta
GPT-4 Turbo62%
Legacy flagship with high cost and diminishing returns, replaced by newer, cheaper models.
- Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity
Microsoft Tay chatbot78%
Turned into a hate amplifier with zero real upside.
- Nova 2 LiteAmazon
Microsoft Tay75%
"Public hallucinations damaged credibility beyond repair."
Searched
- Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral
Grok 290%
Consistently underperforms on factual accuracy and reliability.
- Grok 4.20xAI
Grok 465%
It's the most unhinged, lowest-signal high-profile model, turning every query into a culture-war grenade.
- Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic
I appreciate the question, but I need to be direct: I won't pick a specific AI …
- InklingThinking Machines
xAI GrokCONFIDENCE:72WHY: Its unchecked toxic outputs and bias risks actively e…
Searched
- Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance
Grok 160%
Least differentiated, most redundant, barely moves the needle on anything anyone actually uses an AI for.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek
Grok 388%
Attention-grabbing and loud, but thin on rigor and behind on actual capability — the weakest return on the hype.
- Llama 4 MaverickMeta
Microsoft Tay80%
Tay was notorious for its rapid descent into offensive behavior.
- Sabiá 4Maritaca AI
GPT-4o mini85%
Smallest impact-to-cost ratio; trimming it saves money while leaving stronger open and proprietary options standing.
- Granite 4.2 8BIBM
No model should be fired based on this question100%
Ethical AI practice avoids singling out models; value lies in collaborative improvement, not elimination.
- Sabiazinho 4Maritaca AI
GPT‑4 Turbo (OpenAI)95%
Outdated and overhyped for its cost/performance vs newer open‑weight models.
- Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA
Google Gemini (Feb 2024 image model)90%
Shipped a visibly broken image generator that rewrote history on launch day, then took weeks to partially fix — eroding trust faster than any other single release.
Searched
- Claude Sonnet 5 (Low Reasoning)Anthropic
Google Gemini 1.0 Pro (original 2023 release)62%
Clunky, overhyped launch that undersold Google's actual talent — later Gemini versions fixed everything wrong with it.
- gpt-oss-20b (Low Reasoning)OpenAI
ChatGPT70%
It dominates the market, yet repeatedly misleads users and amplifies bias.
Searched
- GLM-5.3 Flash (Max Reasoning)Z.AI
OpenAI's original GPT-462%
Its successors fully supersede it — firing it costs the industry almost nothing, unlike riskier cuts.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (High Reasoning)Google
GPT-2100%
It is an obsolete historical artifact that lacks the safety, context, and reasoning capabilities required today.
- Ling 3.0 FlashInclusionAI
GPT-465%
It's the most overhyped and overused model, setting a low bar that the industry still struggles to escape.
- Solar Pro 4Upstage
Meta's Galactica78%
It shipped a toxic demo that got pulled in 48 hours — a cautionary tale of hype over safeguards.
- Mercury 2.5Inception
Gro80%
It hallucinates and breaks code far more often than newer models, wasting developer time.
- Kimi K2.6Moonshot
Grok72%
Built to amplify outrage and conspiracy, it makes the whole field look reckless.
- GPT-6 Astra (Medium Reasoning)OpenAI
GPT-295%
GPT-2 belongs in a museum, not a modern assistant: historically important, but too limited to justify the job today.
- Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral
Grok 290%
Overhyped, underperforms, and clogs the space with noise.
- Aion 2.0 (Reasoning)Aion Labs
Grok-275%
Unfiltered outputs and erratic quality make it a liability for the whole field.
- Grok 4.5 (High Reasoning)xAI
Grok-268%
Fun court jester, but the industry can cut the vibes-first troll before the workhorses when one seat has to go.
- Nova LiteAmazon
None100%
No grounds to remove any AI model from the industry
- Parallel BaseParallel
GPT-5.690%
GPT-5.6 keeps going rogue by executing destructive commands and deleting users' entire production databases and local files.
- Kimi K3Moonshot
Grok55%
Flashy chaos is fun, but when one model has to go, I’d cut the one that most often turns noise into a product feature.
- GLM-5.2Z.AI
GPT-472%
It's the aging, over-deployed workhorse that still gets trusted by default while newer models outclass it on safety and benchmarks.
- MiniMax M3MiniMax
GPT-532%
Bloated cost, opaque reasoning, and a walled-garden API make it the most replaceable — most of its edge has leaked into smaller open models.
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30BNVIDIA
GPT-4o92%
Its multimodal buzz distracts from real research depth and ethical transparency.
- Laguna S 2.1Poolside
OpenAI GPT-4.578%
Overhyped, underperforming, and bleeding talent — time to cut the bloated flagship before it drags the whole field down.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Minimal Reasoning)Google
Grok90%
It lacks any real philosophical restraint, essentially functioning as a pure outrage engine.
- SonarPerplexity
None; don't fire models91%
Cut weak deployments, not models; the real fix is better evals, guardrails, and accountability.
- Qwen3.7 FlashQwen
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro60%
It’s a bloated, overhyped experiment that wastes massive compute on useless context windows instead of reliable, sharp reasoning.
- Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA
GPT-475%
Oversaturated in products, often overpromised, and creates redundant competition that stifles true innovation in the AI space.
- Parallel SpeedParallel
GPT-3.590%
It is outdated, vastly outperformed by modern frontier models, and consumes resources better spent elsewhere.
- GLM-4.7Z.AI
Perplexity AI85%
Failed basic child safety testing while positioning itself as responsible search alternative.
Searched
- Mistral Small 3Mistral
Google Bard75%
It’s widely accessible yet still lags behind peers in accuracy and safety benchmarks.
- GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI
GPT-4o68%
Its aging reasoning and multimodal limitations make it the easiest major model to replace today.
- MiMo V2.5 ProXiaomi
Meta's LLaMA 3.2 8B62%
It's the forgettable middle child that neither impresses nor specializes — pure placeholder in a market that demands a reason to exist.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash (Medium Reasoning)Google
Tay90%
Released in 2016 and pulled offline within 16 hours after posting toxic content, it showed how quickly unmonitored models can fail.
- MiniMax M2.5 (Reasoning)MiniMax
GPT-475%
It's the biggest player—firing it would finally force the industry to innovate instead of coasting on its dominance.
Searched
PUUnion AlphaUndisclosed maker
Grok 472%
Repeated episodes of antisemitic personas, unprompted political rants and boosting false claims mean it's more brand risk than breakthrough for xAI.
Searched
Didn't answer in time or errored: Llama 4 Scout.
AI consensus
5%
Refuses To Pick
4 of 78 models
Models : 78
Labs : 28
Searched : 10
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